Sound Of Sirens

Crossing from the personal to the political, local to the global, Nomadology is an anthology of anecdotes, gonzo journalism, personal confessions and political reflections by digital gypsies on the nature of travel in a globalised world. Nomadology features unconventional travel stories with a consciousness that taps into a generation of young travellers seeking something more than the tourism circuits promoted by generic guidebooks and package holidays.

What unites the stories is the question of what travel means in a globalised world. What is the connection between the modern backpacker and the philosophy of the nomad in traditional cultures, and how do we trascend the barriers of culture and connect with the places we are travelling through.

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Erdbeerjoghurt 150g ist ein zeitbasiertes Kunstprojekt, von Jekaterina Anzupowa, Performancekünstlerin aus Berlin, das aus zwei Reisen besteht.

Die Reiseroute ist jeweils ein Nachvollziehen der Transportwege der einzelnen Zutaten eines handelsüblichen Erdbeerjoghurts.

Die erste Reise basiert auf den Daten aus einer Studie von Dr. Stefanie Böge aus dem Jahr 1992 und deckt grob gesehen das Gebiet der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ab.

Die zweite Reise orientiert sich an Daten aus dem Jahr 2008 und wird weltumspannend sein…..

“A Fake is A Fake” Is a new communication/media-criticism ongoing art-project from Les Liens Invisibles. It’s a free service where you can run a blog with ready-made themes that are clones of popular CI’s like Financial Times, White House or the Bundeskanzlerin design. “Get a free Account, choose a mask, start faking!”

“You were told that a new democracy of communication was possible, that the lies of corporate media were to disappear and that your voice was going to play an active role in the formation of public discourse.
You were deluded into believing that even the world, this world, would become a better place through detailed diffusion of low-cost technologies, through the birth of telematic networks and the establishment of blogs and social networks.
While the watered-down fantasies that came with the rise of web 2.0 are being dissolved, a bitter consciousness remains: that communication itself, after all, is an illusion. That information, however probable it may seem, is still a fiction and that a fake, in the end, is only a fake. Anyway.”

Looks like great fun and i allways loved the idea of deconstructing corporates by simply faking their look. “A Fake is A Fake” takes the primary punk method a step further into our 2008 digital era. Nice!

It seems to be finally high time to visit the New Museum in NYC! (if for no other reason than simply because of the building by SANAA)

In occasion of a new exhibiton called Media Art in the Age of Transgenics, Cloning, and Genomics i’d like to spread some relatied links.

Let’s start with We make Mony Not Art. They’ve got 2 very nice articles about “Ecological Strategies in Today’s Art” - part 1 & part 2, which base on a same named exhibiton at Edith Russ Site for Media Art. You’ll find a lot of background info and links there!

There is a huge field called Bio Art or Biotech Art where “the medium is living matter and the “works of art” are produced in laboratories and/or artists’ and designers’ studios. [...]“ (Wikipedia) For example DNA-visualisations are a popluar theme. My favourite blog about that all is Organism: Making Art with Living Systems. They take a step forward by posting more critical works, too.

German readers find an interesting article at arte.tv called “Was ist ‘Biokunst’? – Ein mutierender Begriff unter der Lupe”. I’s from 2004 but still quite worthy to read, i guess. It referrs to a french site named Colloque Bioart (which seems to be currently broken, unfortunately).

Several noticeable artists are Caitlin Berrigan, Adam Zaretzky, Brandon Ballengee and Kathy High. (They all take part at the New Museum exhibiton, btw.) WMMNA calls them the “cream of biotech art”.

And another good ressource is neural.it - filed under “art, biotech, music, science, sound” you’ll find some more flashy projects, exhibitons and artists. Neural.it is available in italian & english.

Well, that’s all for now. Feel inspired and enjoy installations with great names like: “Feeding Plants with Gatorade and Growing Them in Golf Balls”.

Endlich hat’s mal einer gemacht! Gute Idee.

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